President Biden wants his YUGE stimulus bill yesterday….
Democrats are signalling they will be working to get it done….
Republicans for the past week have balked at Biden request for $1.9 trillion that Biden says he wants…
With a Trump second impeachment trial coming up….
Biden & Co. want’s swift action from Congress, hoping to Not get the momentum for the legislation lost on Trump, whole is gone….
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has announced that Democrats have the votes to pass the Biden package already….
A group of ten Republicans led by Sen Collins have broken from the rest in the Senate and want to sit down with Biden to make a deal….
Intersting…..
(This IS how things ARE supposed to work)
One would think that IF the Democrats CAN go ahead and pass something without the Republicans?
The Republicans get nothing from the legislation ….
Hmmmm?
Biden says he’s open to talk….
Could the first cracks in the Grand ole Party ‘follow Trump’ thing be already developing?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said that he believes Senate Democrats have the votes to pass another COVID-19 relief package.
In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” he was asked by host Martha Raddatz if he believes Democrats have enough votes as bipartisan support for a relief bill appears to dwindle.
“Yes, I believe that we do because it’s hard for me to imagine any Democrat, no matter what state he or she may come from, who doesn’t understand the need to go forward right now in an aggressive way to protect the working families of this country,” Sanders said.
“Look, all of us will have differences of opinion. This is a $1.9 trillion bill. I have differences and concerns about this bill,” Sanders said.
“But at the end of the day, we’re going to support the president of the United States, and we’re going to come forward, and we’re going to do what the American people overwhelmingly want us to do. The polling is overwhelming. Republicans, Democrats, independents,” the Vermont senator said….
Aides to President Biden signaled on Sunday that the administration is open to meeting with Republicans who suggested their own framework for COVID-19-related economic relief even as some Democrats have called for the administration’s plan to be pushed through Congress without needing GOP votes.
During interviews on the Sunday political talk shows, top Biden advisers, including National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, said that the president was considering a letter from 10 Senate Republicans released Sunday that called for a meeting with the president to address priorities for a possible deal.
“We’ve received the letter, and will be reviewing it over the course of the day,” Deese said of the letter headed by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). Deese added, however,that Biden was “uncompromising” in his view that a bill should be passed sooner rather than later.
“We want to get cash in the hands of families and businesses that need it the most,” Deese added. “Certainly [we are] open to figuring out if we can make that entire package as effective as possible.”
While the letter released Sunday offered no numeric details of the GOP’s framework, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that the Republican proposal totaled $600 billion, more than half of the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion that included $1,400 direct payments to individuals.
Cassidy said the Republican’s compromise would include $1,000 direct payments, but he did not specify whether that would go to individuals who met the Biden plan’s threshold of earning less than $75,000 in the 2019 tax year….
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I’m sure Biden would like 60 votes in the Senate for his bill ….And would give up somethings….
That would be better then just the 51 he probably can get in Manchin sticks with the Democrats….
But Biden IS in the drives seat ….
What a difference than just a month a go, eh?
image….Susan Walsh/AP
I don’t know whether these Republicans meeting with Biden would indicate some moving away from Trump,but I think he should meet with them.
Maybe they have some good ideas ?
Hell, even Trump met with Pelosi and Schumer early in his presidency.
I think the country would well be served right at this moment if this proposed bill were passed in some Republican votes.
I do also Jack…..
I would think they will be able to get something by dealing….
I want to see how fast others join in….
Ya gotta be IN IT to win it, eh?
The ten meeting with the enemy IS significant ….
Update….
President Joe Biden is open to some negotiation on his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package, a senior administration official told CNN, but the $600 billion counterproposal announced by some Republican senators Sunday is “not going to scratch the itch.”
The White House is specifically open to considering scaling down stimulus checks for families making more than $150,000 per year, the official said, but the administration is not considering cutting off months of unemployment insurance access or money going to schools.
The official told CNN that if the Republican counterproposal moved forward, lawmakers would have to return to negotiating again in two months, which could happen in an even harsher political landscape. The official said that while the Biden administration is open to their relief package being smaller than $1.9 trillion, they’re not considering a $600 billion plan.
The Republican relief package represents the most significant response yet to the White House’s planned package, though with a price tag more than a trillion dollars less than the Democratic plan, the GOP proposal will likely face opposition from congressional Democrats….
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Big Mistake if they lower the stimulus (selfishly I say this as well), but if you cut out a lot of middle class Americans that is going to piss a lot of folks off who see others getting everything (including corporate America the last 12 plus years, bail outs, tax cuts, etc) and not get anything out of the congress…listen I know the Economists in their academia say you give stimulus to someone making 150000K they don’t spend it right away so it doesn’t hit the economy right away, true, but that 1400 will be used in their trip to Disney later in the year, or their purchase of a new car (down payment), so play the long game and make everyone happy, you rarely get an opportunity like this to please a lot of folks in the US, it would be an error to shrink the stimulus check…
why do you think Republicans don’t want it so high and for so many…cause it will be given to the Americans by the Democrats and Biden, and what will people remember in four years when they go to the polls…Biden gave me 1400. Same Reason Donald Trump had his signature on the Checks (if he hadn’t fucked up COVID he could have used that in his campaign the checks he sent out). legally buying votes…
Cause it IS Joe Biden….THE DEMOCRAT
That I think is their FIRST thought…
Except for the 10 and whoever defects from the party line…
NY Times on what seems to have been decision by Biden & Co. to press forward with the YUGE Stimulus Bill….
Ten Republican senators asked President Biden on Sunday to drastically scale back his $1.9 trillion pandemic aid bill, offering a $600 billion alternative that they said could pass quickly with bipartisan support.
But their proposal met a tepid reception from Democrats, who are preparing this week to move forward with their own sweeping package — even if it means eventually cutting Republicans out of the process. Haunted by what they see as their miscalculations in 2009, the last time they controlled the government and faced an economic crisis, the White House and top Democrats are determined to move quickly this time on their stimulus plan, and reluctant to pare it back or make significant changes that would dilute it with no certainty of bringing Republicans on board.
“The dangers of undershooting our response are far greater than overshooting,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the new majority leader. “We should have learned the lesson of 2008 and 2009, when Congress was too timid and constrained in its response to the financial crisis.”
Their strategy can be traced to 12 years ago, when Barack Obama became president….
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Biden WILL deal…..
Middle Class depends on where you reside….
Southern Republican’s have ALREADY screwed Blue states in 2017….
agreed, once I buy a home, I will feel the impact of that “tax cut” where you can’t deduct mortgage interest and state tax over 10K…shit most taxes on LI are over 10k in most areas, or damn near close to 10K…
Buy U WILL have a piece of the Rock!…….
Republicans have now ordered the public readout of the entire Biden stimulus bill….
Despite the stalling?
The bill IS gonna pass….
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is forcing Senate floor staff to read the entire Democratic coronavirus relief bill, a maneuver that could take up to 10 hours and will delay a final vote on the legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally offered the 628-page Senate bill on Thursday after an initial vote to take up House-passed legislation, which is being used as a vehicle for the chamber’s debate.
Typically the Senate waives the full reading of bills or amendments. But Johnson had vowed to force Senate floor staff to read the bill, arguing it would give senators time to craft amendments and for Americans to learn the details of the legislation…
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Senate Democrats’ move to limit the eligibility for the latest round of stimulus checks to people making $80,000 or less is frustrating progressives, who say it makes little sense for President Biden to distribute payments to fewer people than what was done under former President Trump.
Biden agreed to the change this week as a concession to centrist senators, whose votes he needs to move the legislation through the narrowly divided 50-50 Senate.
The decision is unlikely to cut into the Democratic vote for the measure, as so far no progressives are threatening to oppose the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package over the change. But it has left a bitter taste for many….
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